A Recovery Now

Join Kim & Simon Lewis as they discuss looking back on summer. Did we get off the bench, live life and accomplish desired goals?  What were the challenges and the victories? Can get easy with brain injury to pull back from life and isolate. To let fear of "not being our old selves", keep us from trying new pursuits. No one said living with brain injury is easy. It's not. Yet here we are. How t...

Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month 2021. Everyone knows something about heart disease, Cancer, Diabetes .. But few know much about Brain Aneuryems. Odd since 1 in 50 have one, every 18 seconds one ruptures, and 67% of those, have some form of permanent disability. Ruptures occur in about 30,000 people in the U.S. each year, and 40 percent of those cases result in death within 24 hours. No one question...

A harrowing tale of widespread illegal payments and kickbacks that cost Taxpayers Billions and cost Chris Riedel tremendous personal sacrifice. His dogged & courageous pursuit of the perpetrators for himself, his Industry, the Taxpayers and Other Whistleblowers has Earned Him the Title of "Fraud Fighter". Blood Money: One Man's Bare-Knuckle Fight to Protect Taxpayers from Medical Lab Fraud - i...

The host will share his brain injury recovery as well as others that he has know Than he will go into how he has reset his life post injury and others he has know while sharing things the llisteners can do to to live thier lives Updates on current issues and Corona Words on 9/11 

Kim and Caren will be remembering September 11th, 2001 on this 20th Anniversary of the horrific tragedy that changed our nation. Feel free to call in and share your direct or indirect recollections of 9-11. James T. Ryder is a retired NYPD Officer, having retired after 20 years. On 9/11 he responded to Ground Zero and remained there for (4) years. His assignment changed on 9/11 from the Highway Pa...

September 1st Kicks Off Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month - In the 2nd Hour of Show I'll be discussing- Sandra Yancy is Founder and CEO of eWomenNetwork, the largest organization of women entrepreneurs in the world. eWomenWork has over 500,000 women entrepreneurs connected through 118 chapters across North America. eWomenNetwork conducts over 2,000 in-person and online events and hosts what Predictiv...

Patti Henry, MEd, LPC   says there are no shortcuts. You have to do the work and face the pain, and there will be challenges. But by following her lead, you will gradually, lovingly graduate to Lifetime Two. Patty is author of the book, Two Lifetimes: Which Lifetime are You in Today?  It took her own journey to find this jumping off point. For more see: Patti-Henry.com She teaches you how to coura...

Regular weekly host Kim & 2nd WED of each month co-host, Caren Robinson, will be discussing the ills of healthcare and the fault in no fault auto insurance .. Perhaps with their ususal couple of brief detours! For one, the acceleration of the new variant of COVID, the mandates, vaccine & who do you trust? Discussion of the Insurance Industry, both evolving Healthcare Plans & Auto Insur...

 For those who think that life has passed them by, Wendy Darling gives you a plan to get back in the game and get those dreams realized!  Based on her personal experience of coming back from a game changing near fatal accident, Wendy was able to learn to rest her life. Create Your Miraculous Life: It's Never Too Late is an urgent manual for reinvention. Wendy guides you through the tools to unlock...

Michael Goddart's A NEW NOW: Your Guide to Mastering Wisdom Daily, Achieving Equilibrium, and Empowering Your Nobler Self is a life-changing manual on how to live in your expanded awareness of your innate higher consciousness on a daily basis. By mastering the wisdom in this book, you'll achieve equilibrium and not be tossed by the tides of everyday life. From equilibrium and your increasingly awa...

Kim & Caren will be discussing strengthening the immune system and alternatives for bolstering the endocrine, carrying over from last months show. Then .. You just never know. Tune in and find out! This show is a gathering place for anyone seeking recovery from the challenges of life on life's terms. We discuss useful tools that have helped us lighten the load, of our journey through recovery....

Dr. Chrisanne Gordon is a rehabilitation physician specializing in traumatic brain injury recovery. She considers it an honor to work with veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan who are recovering from the invisible wounds of war, TBI/PTS."  She is Founder and Chairwoman of Resurrecting Lives Foundation. Her documentary in 2013 "Operation Ressurection" demonstrates solutions for health care, education...

Now a coach, teacher and health advocate with a master's degree in mind-body medicine, Courtney Marchesani has spent the last 20 years passionately exploring the research gap that exists between what medical science believes and what the gifted sensitive feels. She provides an enlightening ride through early to now-emerging science on sensitivity and the abilities of the highly sensitive. Discover...

Brandon Beachum is an entrepreneur, thought leader, author, and host of The Positive Head Podcast, as well as the late-night style talk show, Optimystic. The Positive Head Podcast (positivehead.com), which to date has amassed over 15M downloads and has consistently rated in the Top Five in the “Spirituality” category on Apple. Today, Brandon's primary focus is on helping people shift their perspec...

Kim will open with a quote by Missouri Attorney Albert Watkins, accentuating ignorance and cruelity directed by a good portion of society, and their false assumptions behind disabilites of the brain. We advocate and raise awareness here. This is a perfect example of anyone, let alone someone with a high profile perpetuating what could now be seen as "hate speech" versus a 1st Ammedment comment. Ki...

While I have been here every week for my shows, I have largely been off the grid due to family health emergencies, and a few illnesses of my own. I've had lots of great ideas, but not so much the energy and motivation to follow through. We all fashion the routines that work for us, in that they keep us at peak stability & productivity -But go off those comfort rails, & all bets off. Tonigh...

A few weeks ago, my show discussed the Acoustic TBI, a topic you seldom hear about. There was a lot of interest expressed, so I got to thinking about other environmental threats to our bodies and brains. Immediately I recalled the weaponized microwave attack to a US Embassy, causing many severe TBI's. No one saw it coming. We have a lot of great technology like cells, 5G Towers, Microwave ovens, B...

The life mission of Lee Tomlinson – also known as “Patient Lee” -- is to inspire healthcare professionals to return compassionate care to its rightful place at the forefront of modern healthcare - to benefit patients, their families; and they’re often suffering, “burned-out” selves. Award-winning television producer, movie studio executive and owner, former professional athlete, speaker and TED Ta...

Kim and Co-Host Caren Robinson will be discussing Blast Injury and Acoustic TBI.  We think of Blast Injury in terms of our Veterans .. At least that's where most of us became aware of the term. Many have never heard of Acoustic TBI. These injuries are not veteran exclusive. Tune in tonight and hear how these types may be effecting you or your loved one(s). This show is a gathering place for anyone...

My guest tonight is Ian (Powell) McCullum, author of From Grave to Cradle to Now -The Health Care Professional Edition. The book is a father’s account of his families journey with a traumatically brain injured son, who they were told would die imminently.  Written by a health care neophyte, with the assistance of health care professionals, the book addresses—separately and together—both families a...

Having a traumatic brain injury is one thing. It's horrible and we walk away with both physical and emotional challenges. Then .. Learn to cope with any damage that was done. Now, imagine being made aware you have a possible ticking time bomb in your body. One option is to "wait and see," and another may be a difficult fix with fallout. While we're contemplating this new information, we become acu...

In her new book Authenticity Awakened: The Path to OWNING Your Life's Story and Fulfilling Your Purpose, Vicki Znavor guides readers on how to mine their life story to discover their pivotal moments, values and their purpose which together create the foundation for ultimate success and a rewarding work life. She helps others understand their pivotal life stories, their values and their purpose by...

A couple of weeks ago I was going to discuss a twist on this topic, but the first half of that show was on the quickly changing COVID information, rules and resources. That ended up taking the whole show! The last "Simon Says" installment, has some great information on the vaccines, the virus and the future. CoHost Caren and I decided this is an even better time in spring to discuss hope and chang...

Networking plays a major role in every aspect of our lives, even if we don’t see or realize that we’re doing it. Especially in our professional lives. When it comes to job search and career development, it’s hands-down the most important skill to have. Tonight we'll learn from an expert, how to make the preocess less intimidating! Networking…do I have to? It’s a common sentiment, and shared by mos...

The new catch phrase has been "reimagining" this past year, better known as looking at something differently. Creating change to implement to the new vision. Sometimes we do that for ourselves, and others, people who think they know better, impose those changes for us. In the case of brain injury, we have a little of both. Those in-the-know often demonstrate the extent of their cluelessness, while...